DoorDash, Jessica Biel Partner on Ready-Made School Lunches
With a new product called Grab & Go Bento, DoorDash hopes to make it easier for parents to pack lunch for their school-bound kids—with an assist from actress Jessica Biel. The new bento-inspired lunches are designed to appeal to picky kiddos, and they can now be...
Meal Subscription Service Freshly Shuts Down
As people ring in the new year, ads for meal-kit delivery services seem to pop up more than usual, encouraging consumers to try new routines in eating, promoting convenience and healthy choices. But consumers weighing their options will need to cross off a once-key...
Countertop Oven Celcy Enters Beta With ‘Nespresso for Food’
Strapped for time to cook? Want dinner ready exactly when you get home? The startup consumer electronic device Celcy hopes to help with a countertop device that stores and cooks food automatically—and it’s a lot more than another microwave. The device, designed by...
Two Meal Kits Launch with Niche Lifestyles in Mind
A pair of new meal kits have launched to tap niche lifestyles with mail-order food. Even in the wake of the horrific Daily Harvest foodborne illness outbreak, there continues to be a steady stream of brands looking to push into their customers’ homebound habits with...
Daily Harvest Faults Tara Flour for Outbreak
Mail-order health-food giant Daily Harvest identified the ingredient that made nearly 500 customers sick in a massive foodborne illness outbreak. In a letter to customers updating them on the outbreak, Daily Harvest CEO Rachel Drori wrote the company “identified tara...
Starting in September
Off Premises University is a new digital content series designed to inform and educate restaurant operators on some of the most critical off-premises issues affecting their business and the best practices to address them.
